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Mesoscale Discussion 230
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 1, 2007, 3:17 AM CST for 42 counties in Iowa; Faribault County, Jackson County, Martin County, Minnesota; 10 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 1, 2007, 3:17 AM CST (09:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 1, 2007, 9:15 AM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 55 counties
Adair County, IA, Adams County, IA, Audubon County, IA, Boone County, IA, Buena Vista County, IA, Calhoun County, IA, Carroll County, IA, Cass County, IA, Cherokee County, IA, Clay County, IA, Crawford County, IA, Dallas County, IA, Dickinson County, IA, Emmet County, IA, Fremont County, IA, Greene County, IA, Guthrie County, IA, Hamilton County, IA, Hancock County, IA, Harrison County, IA, Humboldt County, IA, Ida County, IA, Kossuth County, IA, Madison County, IA, Mills County, IA, Monona County, IA, Montgomery County, IA, O'Brien County, IA, Osceola County, IA, Page County, IA, Palo Alto County, IA, Plymouth County, IA, Pocahontas County, IA, Pottawattamie County, IA, Sac County, IA, Shelby County, IA, Sioux County, IA, Union County, IA, Webster County, IA, Winnebago County, IA, Woodbury County, IA, Wright County, IA, Faribault County, MN, Jackson County, MN, Martin County, MN, Burt County, NE, Cass County, NE, Dodge County, NE, Douglas County, NE, Lancaster County, NE, Otoe County, NE, Sarpy County, NE, Saunders County, NE, Thurston County, NE, Washington County, NE
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 95 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 554 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 222 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 28, 10:30 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lee | 90 min |
| Mar 1, 2:29 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Audubon, Buena Vista, Calhoun, Carroll, Cherokee, Clay and 23 more | 3 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Iowa, 2007Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2007Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, 2007Every mesoscale discussion in 2007
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.